The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-17

| Georgia bought l68, 900 tons of commercial
fertilizers, for which she paid S7,oe0,0 900,
every dollar of which went North. Last
| year she used l6o, ,050 tons, of which l25, 900
tons were made in Georgia, of Carohua
! phosphates, Georgia cotton meal
and sulphuric acid reduced from
natural iron pyrites. Thus ono State
in one item has checked an outflow of S6,-
OOO, 200 per annum, and will double the ca
pacity of her factories in another year,
Twenty years ago we wasted three million
tons of cotton seed by dumping it into the
river or burning it. Last year we ran s00. 900
| tons through l40 oil mills, extracting $1,000
000 worth of oil refined into $l4, 600 900 value
and turned back cotton meal to the farmer,
better for food or fertilizer than before it
was robbed of its oil The fertlli2ing value
of tho cotton seed which was burned or
drowned twenty-five years ago is Sl40,000,-
OO0, moro than tho rye, oat and wheat
crops of the Northwest combined.
THE IRON PRODUCTION.
"More amazing than all, In 1880 the South
produced 100000 tons Of iron, and in 1887,
$4,000 tons. This increase of 457 900 tons
in seven years startled tho world But
| there are now In actual process
OF erection thirty-one iron furnaces
in the South with capacity of 5000 tons
per day, or 100000 tons per annum. so
that where we increased 10000 tons in
| tons in one year"
Mr. Grady gave other figures at length,
showing the enormous growth Of indus
trial movements In the South. He
then praised the work Of the Southern
| farmer who, out of nothing twenty years
ago but bare lands and desolated fields, had
produced last year crop of $7l5,0O0,00O.
In closing he said: II thank God over and
again for the time and place of my birth;
| Whan fha SOIfh
merging from unspeakable sorrow, pros
trated and impoverished called her sons to
her side, and that was born Of her bosom
and sworn to her service.
WOULD HAVE TOUCHED HIM IF AN ALIEN.
''Had l been an alien her sorrows would
have touched me, as / should have sought
her banner. But, born OF her soil and hold
ing heirship in her sorrows, / have mover
had an aspiration which was not hers,
Have you thought, my countrymen, of the
glorious work of our hands and the glori-
Gus crisis in which we were bornl We
stand for the integrity of a
splendid civilization, from the spirit
of which we cannot in honor or reverence
depart but which we must carry unstained
into new conditions. 1t is ours to show that
the land that prospered with slaves, shall
prosper yet more with freedom; that peo-
pie devoted in war shall triumph in
peace, and that set apart for a
century they shall enter the lists
in poverty and emerge in prosperity; hold
sacred every honorable tradition, yet turn
their faces, steadfast and dnuntless, to the
future. How are we keeping this trusts
ARE FARMERS LOSING GRoUND2
''There are those who say that our farmers
are losing ground and being driven back
ward from their farms as our fathers We're
driven backward from APpcmatox and
| Il.
/ that farmers i'm the South are in worse-sesa-
dition than they were ten years ago. Is this
true, and If so why is itl We have a land
unsurpassed in richness and fertility, a
climate enriched, winter is but
passing breath, and spring and autumn
meet in the heart of summer. Corn, cotton,
clover, tobacco, wheat and grasses grow in
one inclosure. Peach and apple ripen in the
same orchard, and we grow every
the Siberian crab. Our forests are
exhaustless, our mines rich, our quarries
untouched, our lands perfect. Are our
men lackings Why! In manliness and
courage our fathers gave us richer herit-
age than in the broad acres they be-
queathed. The blood of the old South is
as tender as ever, fed by heart
of woman, as ardent as ever
blazed in veins of soldier. The engaging
tenderness of the cavalier let into the sturdy
Anglo-Saxon current, the rich red blood of
strong men that ran as water at honors call,
and never stained where it touched.
MUST NOT FALTER IN Us.
"Shall this blood which pours through
century luminous with high achievements
into our veins, shall it falter first i'm us and
be driven back on irresolute parts3 Let us
make a compact here to-day, my country
men, earnest men on an earnest purpose,
hat ha tYtIa inf xuaa ara
we will search for the mistakes and
errors in the working Of our system, and
at any cost cast them out forever. Sitting
every ambition, crushing every prejudice,
putting aside all preferences, let us gather
about the garments of our Old mother, labor
ing and troubled, distraught with
griefs and problems, and give her,
arms and hearts. There is no ambition so
noble avto be first at her feet and last in her
services; no end so glorious as at the close Of
q long and devoted life to sink to rest ON her
bosom, tranquil and content as little child
that falls to sleep in its mothers arms and
rests untroubled in the shadow of her
srnilen
With few practical words of advice, Mr.
Grady closed amid round after round OF
applause.
At 3 O'Clock this afternoon the committee
on permanent organization reported the fol-
lowing gentlemen as officers Of the body, the
report being unanimously adopted
J. s. Newman, of Auburn, Ala, Presl-
dent Vice Presidents, ID. Il. Barker of Ar
kansas, N. f. Kolb Of Alabama, l.. r.
Featherston of Arkansas, s. r. Fairbanks
of Florida, w. j. Northern of Georgia, G..
G.. Zenor Of Louisiana, Alech McIver of
North Carolina, D. NJ. Russell Of Mississippi
Walter Gregory of Tennessee, T.. X. Mcfver
Of South Carolina, and b. j. Kendrick Of
Texas
w. s. DoWof and s. W. Postell, of Geor-
gia, we rechosen secretaries.
Col Thomas C. Howard read the report
and programme OF the committee.
Tonight Hon. l.. l.. Polk, of North Caro-
lima, addressed the convention on the DE
fects Of the Agricultural System of the Cot
ton States